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Genesis 1:3

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3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

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Jeremiah 10:12

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12 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.

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The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #76

  
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76. Internal Meaning of Jeremiah, Chapter 10

1-2 Let not those be feared who wish to prevail by their own intelligence and by means of artifices. (3)

3-5 It is described how they make evil to appear like good, and make themselves appear powerful, (3)

6-7 whereas the Lord alone has power. (16)

8-9 To do this they abuse the Word; (3)

10 but the Lord alone reigns, (16)

11 and those who do not acknowledge Him vanish. (4)

12-13 All truth is from the Lord. (16)

14-15 Self-intelligence amounts to nothing at all; it will perish. (2, 3)

11 It is otherwise with a church that trusts in the Lord.

17-18 The preparation of these during the destruction of the former. (11, 3)

19-21 Grief because of the backsliding of the church from the Lord, and its vastation. (3, 11)

22 Their end. (3)

23-25 Prayer to the Lord that they may not perish together with the evil. (11)

  
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